A small ops team that grew into your favourite cloud.
We started HostEngine because we wanted infrastructure that we'd actually want to use. We're now 240 people and 14 regions — but we still answer chats.
Make hosting infrastructure stop getting in the way.
For half a generation, public cloud has been a tax on the worst day of every engineer's month. HostEngine is what infrastructure looks like when the people who run it use it.
Four ideas every HostEngine person interviews against.
Customer obsession
Every engineer takes a support shift each quarter. The roadmap follows what we hear in chat.
Operational honesty
We post-mortem every incident publicly, charge no premium for SLA credits, and refuse to hide behind tier-1 reps.
Speed as a feature
Slow infrastructure is bad ergonomics. Provisioning, builds and support replies are all on the clock.
Open by default
Open peering, open API, open Trust Center. We make the choice with the most customer optionality.
The people you'll meet.
Eight years of building.
- 2018
HostEngine founded in Berlin & Toronto
Sasha and Aditya leave a hyperscaler, fed up with bills nobody could explain.
- 2019
First three regions: Frankfurt, Amsterdam, NYC
All on owned hardware in colocation cages we still use today.
- 2021
10,000 customers and our first SOC 2
We hire our first compliance lead and publish the audit report without an NDA.
- 2022
Forex VPS launches in Equinix LD4 / NY4
A side project for one trader becomes a fast-growing business line.
- 2024
GPU Cloud and 14 regions
We bring on liquid-cooled H100s and open Mumbai, São Paulo, Johannesburg.
- 2026
182,000+ customers, 2.6M workloads
Still founder-led, still profitable, still answering chats from the CEO's laptop.
Trusted by 180,000+ teams in 140 countries
Want to help build the next chapter?
Spin up a region in under a minute. Bring your own panel. Pay by the hour. Cancel any time.
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- 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s